· Private foundation
John W and Margaret G Bertsch Charitable
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hillsdale College | $10,000 |
| Kids Food Basket | $10,000 |
| Gary Sinese Foundation | $10,000 |
| IKUS | $10,000 |
| DA Blodgett St Johns | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UMCH | $10,000 |
| Pebbles and Stones | $6,000 |
| Southwest Church | $5,000 |
| Pact | $3,000 |
| Providence | $3,000 |
| Nothern Michigan Equine Therapy | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $86k · revenue +99%- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +16%
- PAPEBBLES AND STONES5× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- YWYWCA West Central Michone grant, 2017 · $10k
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +329%- YSYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +91%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
To inspire learning through an unparalleled academic approach, and transform communities by changing lives.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
To educate students to be exceptional learners and independent thinkers of vision, courage, and integrity.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds PEBBLES AND STONES ↗
- Who funds INDIAN TRAILS CAMP ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PACT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MICHIGAN EQUINE THERAPY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John W and Margaret G Bertsch Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W and Margaret G Bertsch Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.
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